At this moment.
Gu Qingfeng stood atop a Desolate Ancient Era ruin.
This ruin was undeniably vast.
It possessed mountains, rivers, and dense forests.
There were flowers, grasses, trees, ravines, and deserts, appearing much like the landmass of the Great Wasteland world.
The only difference was.
The Great Wasteland world brimmed with vitality; whether it was flowers, grasses, trees, or anything else, all were bursting with life.
Yet this Desolate Ancient Era ruin was utterly lifeless, devoid of any vitality; everything resembled scenery from a painting.
Gu Qingfeng stepped onto a mountain peak, slightly closed his eyes, and carefully felt.
Feeling the changes within Li Palace, feeling the rotation of the Void, and also feeling the fusion of one Desolate Ancient Era ruin after another.
He could feel it.
And the sensation was quite distinct.
This feeling was marvelous; one Desolate Ancient Era ruin after another fused as the Void rotated, while the Void rotated as Li Palace changed.
The changes of Li Palace were profoundly mysterious, wondrous beyond words.
These changes seemed chaotic and without pattern, yet Gu Qingfeng was certain they held profound profundities—it was just that he could not comprehend them.
The aura of Original Sin grew denser and more intense, as if sweeping over from all directions, permeating everywhere.
Suddenly!
Gu Qingfeng sensed something amiss. He snapped his eyes open and looked over, only to see a Desolate Ancient Era ruin in the distance faintly glowing with a radiant light.
The light resembled starlight, flickering faintly, hazy and distorted like smoke, wavering and ethereal as if flames were burning.
Strangely, as that Desolate Ancient Era ruin bloomed with light, a dense aura of Original Sin also radiated forth.
“What the hell is that?”
Gu Qingfeng asked.
Beside him, Da Xing the Mad Monk had been keeping his head down, drinking sullen wine and pondering other matters. Hearing Gu Qingfeng speak, he snapped back to attention and asked, “What? What the hell?”
“Over there!”
Gu Qingfeng pointed towards that distant Desolate Ancient Era ruin.
Da Xing the Mad Monk stood up, patted the dust off his backside, squinted his eyes, and peered over. One look was all it took for his expression to change drastically, his spirit instantly roused, and he exclaimed, “Good heavens!”
“What is it?”
“That’s the Light of Original Sin!”
“That thing is the Light of Original Sin?”
Gu Qingfeng had heard Da Xing the Mad Monk speak of it.
He said that back in the Desolate Ancient Era, the moment the Age of No Dao began, the skies were filled with the Light of Original Sin.
As for what the Light of Original Sin was, Gu Qingfeng didn’t know, and Da Xing the Mad Monk couldn’t explain it clearly either. They only knew it was a very peculiar radiance, belonging neither to darkness nor light, neither holy nor evil, and not all-encompassing like the Chaos Light.
The Light of Original Sin was more like a pure light.
Pure and spotless, as if it were nothing at all.
Since the Light of Original Sin bloomed at the moment the Age of No Dao began, some also called it the Light of No Dao.
“Da Xing, I seem to recall you saying that if the Light of Original Sin appears in the Primordial Nine Palaces, there might be a Flower of Original Sin, right?”
“Correct!
That is indeed possible. In Qian Palace, Zhen Palace, Kun Palace, and the other Primordial Nine Palaces, the Light of Original Sin has almost all appeared, and there are also rumors that the Flower of Original Sin has been found.”
Da Xing the Mad Monk’s avatars were spread throughout the Primordial Nine Palaces, and he had been closely monitoring all developments within them, clearly aware that the Primordial Nine Palaces were all undergoing changes, the Void was rotating, and ruins were fusing.
Moreover, the aura of Original Sin within the Primordial Nine Palaces was extremely dense. Not long ago, the Light of Original Sin began appearing one after another in the Primordial Nine Palaces.
This should be an omen.
What secrets the Primordial Nine Palaces concealed would likely be revealed before long.
“Since that’s the case, let’s not just stand here. Let’s go take a look.”
Gu Qingfeng leaped into the air and sped straight towards it.
The Primordial Nine Palaces were boundless and vast. Though that Desolate Ancient Era ruin glowing with the Light of Original Sin didn’t look far, it was merely an appearance.
When one truly wanted to reach it, they would discover that the distance to that Desolate Ancient Era ruin was not simply far; it was far more complicated.
Gu Qingfeng and Da Xing the Mad Monk raced wildly through the Void of Li Palace. With a single step, Gu Qingfeng contracted the earth to an inch; with a footfall, it was as if he shattered the Void. His speed was so fast that his figure was invisible, leaving only afterimages.
As his foot lifted, an afterimage appeared.
As his foot landed, the Void beneath crumbled, and the afterimage dissipated.
Looking from afar, Gu Qingfeng’s afterimages in the Void resembled a series of vertically aligned flowers blooming and withering in succession, appearing and dissipating one after another.
This art of shattering the Void and treading on ripples was especially profound.
It also made Da Xing the Mad Monk exceedingly envious.
He knew that under heaven and earth, only two individuals possessed this ability to shatter the Void.
One was Gu Qingfeng, the other was Demon Emperor Blood River.
Da Xing the Mad Monk had also tried to ponder it, but he couldn’t grasp its profundities.
It required a deep comprehension of the Great Dao of Space.
Da Xing the Mad Monk considered his own comprehension of the Great Dao of Space passable. Though he hadn’t yet grasped the true essence of the Great Dao of Space, he was still proficient in its various mysteries.
Unfortunately.
He had never managed to comprehend this ability of Gu Qingfeng and Demon Emperor Blood River to shatter the Void; he couldn’t even grasp the basics.
Of course.
Without this ability, Da Xing the Mad Monk wasn’t slow either, relying on his own two legs to bounce along.
He leaned forward, his legs sliding through the Void as if skating on an icy river, his speed also generating a series of afterimages.
He couldn’t catch up to Gu Qingfeng, but he wasn’t left far behind either.
Da Xing the Mad Monk had initially thought that with his and Gu Qingfeng’s speed, they wouldn’t take long to reach that Desolate Ancient Era ruin blooming with the Light of Original Sin.
But to his frustration, after racing through the Void for so long, they still hadn’t reached their destination.
Not only that.
It felt as though the more they rushed, the farther that Desolate Ancient Era ruin blooming with the Light of Original Sin seemed to become.
“Kid Gu!
Kid Gu!”
Da Xing the Mad Monk hurriedly called out. Seeing Gu Qingfeng stop ahead, he said, “Haven’t you noticed something’s off?”
“More than off, it’s downright bizarre!”
Gu Qingfeng frowned as he gazed at that distant Desolate Ancient Era ruin blooming with the Light of Original Sin.
Even without Da Xing the Mad Monk mentioning it, he had also noticed they were getting farther from that Desolate Ancient Era ruin.
“Kid Gu, we can’t keep charging straight ahead like this, damn it!
The farther we run, the farther it gets.”
Da Xing the Mad Monk said, “The Primordial Nine Palaces are changing every moment. The Void rotates as the Nine Palaces change, and the ruins fuse as the Void rotates. If we keep charging straight ahead like this, we’ll probably never reach it.”
Earlier.
Both Gu Qingfeng and Da Xing the Mad Monk, though they could sense the Nine Palaces changing, the Void rotating, and the ruins fusing,
it was merely a sensation.
They hadn’t felt anything directly.
This time, they thoroughly and personally experienced it.